In
America, over half the US population registers overweight or obese
on the scales each morning. Our country spends more money on weight
loss programs than the GNP of many countries. Richard Simmons, Weight
Watchers, Sensa and Jenny Craig earn staggering revenues, estimated
at $9 billion annually for weight loss programs, trying to slim down
obese Americans. Millions watch “Biggest Loser” hoping
for a miracle that they could become contestants on the show.

While
Americans enjoy endless fast food, drink and snacks—over 47
million Americans depend on taxpayer dollars to feed them via food
stamps. Those 47 million chose to exclude themselves from the American
workforce by dropping out of school, becoming pregnant in high school
or they lack the intellectual horsepower to secure and keep a livable-wage
job. They become dependent on your tax dollars.

Unfortunately,
our U.S. Congress encourages a growing number of dumb, lazy and illiterate
Americans, as well as a growing armada of legal and illegal immigrants
to slough-off, live on welfare and make nothing of their lives. Current
welfare programs encourage cheating, fraud and racketeering.

Recently,
the New York Post reported that local immigrants packed up groceries
purchased with food stamps and shipped provisions to their homelands.
Even intellectually vacant minds see opportunities that invite them
to cheat. California journalist Brenda Walker said, “Further
investigation by the paper has now found that selling those giant
containers of food is a thriving business for diverse immigrants on
the backs of the unwilling American taxpayer. Much of it goes into
the Caribbean islands. The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign
aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year. Now we learn that tax money
spent to prevent hunger is being wasted away in a double fraud.”

“It’s
a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,”
said a seller named Maria-Teresa.

Food-stamp
fraud in New York morphed into foreign aid, while U.S. taxpayers don’t
possess any idea of the billions of fraudulent dollars wasted on those
47 million people devouring food stamp benefits. Today, they use EBT
cards, Electronic Benefit Transfers, for groceries, fast foods like
Subway, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. No shame; just scam, laziness
and petty fraud.

One
native said she scalps barrels of Frosted Flakes and baby formula
bought with welfare money in the United States. Maria-Teresa said
she gets new barrels every few weeks from her sister, who buys everything
at a Western Beef Store on Prospect Avenue near East 165th Street
in Foxhurst.

Walker
reported, “The scamming sibling pays $75 per barrel to transport
the items through Mott Haven’s Luciano Shipping. Sometimes the
family fraudsters take advantage of a special: three barrels for the
price of two. Maria-Teresa said she uses some of the products but
vends the rest out of her Santiago home, providing markdowns of $1
to $2 compared to what her buyers would pay in local shops.”

“I
don’t know how much of a business it is, but I know a lot of
people are doing it,” Maria-Teresa said.

Food
stamp fraudsters use Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, which means
taxpayers foot the bills. A 23-ounce container of powdered Enfamil
Baby Formula goes for $25 in the United States and $19 in Santiago
but Maria-Teresa sells it for $15.

“People
want the best quality for the price, so they buy the formula made
in the US,” she said.

A
thirty-something Haitian national said his sister in Queens uses her
EBT card to purchase food before shipping it to him from Long Island
City. “Every other month, I receive the barrels from my sister
in New York City,” he said. “Whatever I don’t need,
I sell.”

With
scant to no oversight, our US Congress urges, encourages, assists
and engenders food stamp fraud. You and I pay for it.

If
the S744 amnesty bill passes Congress, our projected legal immigrant
population expects to exceed over 100 million more poor, uneducated,
unskilled and welfare-prone citizens within three decades. In other
words, we import intractable poverty into the belly of America. At
the same time, we displace American workers—which shoves them
into welfare and food stamp lines.

Does
anyone in Congress comprehend the final equation facing all Americans?
Answer: Congress could care less.

Once
entrenched, food stamp recipients could reach anywhere from 70 million
to 90 million mouths to feed. As it stands in 2013, one of six Americans
suffers from lack of access to three square meals daily. According
to FeedingAmerica.org,
“One in six people in the United States go hungry daily. Many
people believe that the problems associated with hunger are confined
to small pockets of society, certain areas of the country, or certain
neighborhoods, but the reality is much different. Right now, millions
of Americans are struggling with hunger. These are often hard-working
adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends meet and
are forced to go without food for several meals, or even days.”

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“As
the nation’s leading hunger relief charity,” said a spokesperson.
“Our food bank network supplies food to more than 37 million
Americans annually, including 14 million children and 3 million adults.”

I
must ask the question: what will we do when another 100 million third
world immigrants land on our shores because of S744 amnesty bill?
Answer: we devolve into a starving, unemployed, poverty-stricken country
like the ones the immigrants fled.

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TAKE YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION:
DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA:
INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND
THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME
ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA.” His next book: “TILTING THE
STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.” He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Unfortunately,
our U.S. Congress encourages a growing number of dumb, lazy and illiterate
Americans, as well as a growing armada of legal and illegal immigrants
to slough-off, live on welfare and make nothing of their lives. Current
welfare programs encourage cheating, fraud and racketeering.